What is the Department of Education?

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Dismantling the Department of Ed? It's been tried before.

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0:00.0	I do have a quick interruption that's not related to education.
0:03.3	Is there any chance in your room you have a different chair?
0:06.4	Oh, this one's squeaky.
0:07.7	Yeah, yeah.
0:09.7	You don't have to.
0:10.8	You got time? I'll get a different too.
0:13.6	Look at that old chair.
0:15.6	Shut off.
0:17.8	You're listening to Civics 101.
0:19.5	I'm Nick Capadice.
0:20.6	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:21.7	And today we are talking about the United States Department of Education.
0:26.0	Who is that in that squeaky chair just now?
0:28.3	That was repeat Civics 101 guest Adam Latz.
0:32.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:32.7	I'm Adam Lutz.
0:33.6	I'm a professor of education and history at SUNY Binghamton.
0:36.9	Adam got another chair, by the way, so we were all said.
0:39.7	All right, how's this one?
0:40.6	Fantastic. I would like it if you came in within like a series of progressively older chairs.
0:47.4	Enough about chairs, Hannah. Let us talk about the Department of Education.
0:51.8	And some quick abbreviation clearing up. When we say the DOE,
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